Husted asks GOP to be more welcoming

6:00 AM,
Feb. 23, 2013

Jon Husted

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Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted told Republicans their party can win over younger voters, women and minority voters if it retains core beliefs, but stops talking in a "hard edged" way.

"We have to be a warm, forward-looking party, a welcoming party," he said, speaking at the Richland County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner, held Friday night at Cafe on Main in downtown Mansfield.

Husted noted the party lost the presidential election and six Congressional seats to Democrats in 2012. He said he worried during the campaign season after he saw polls in which Barack Obama held a big ...